Tom Reuveny finishes first in the men’s iQFoil windsurfing final, picking up Israel’s first gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Israel’s Tom Reuveny jumps into the water to celebrate winning the gold medal in the men’s IQFoil windsurfing final at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games sailing competition, at the Roucas-Blanc Marina in Marseille on August 3, 2024. (Christophe SIMON / AFP)
Reuveny’s win is something of a sensation, as he had previously not even been expected to make it to the semifinals.
Israel’s Tom Reuveny celebrates winning the gold medal in the men’s IQFoil windsurfing final at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games sailing competition, at the Roucas-Blanc Marina in Marseille on August 3, 2024. (Christophe SIMON / AFP)
The son of a British mother and Israeli father, he began sailing at age eight. Now 24, these are his first Olympic Games.
Israel’s Tom Reuveny celebrates with the national flag after winning the gold medal in the men’s IQFoil windsurfing final at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games sailing competition, at the Roucas-Blanc Marina in Marseille on August 3, 2024. (Christophe SIMON / AFP)
He previously took fourth place in the 2022 iQFOiL Wold Championships and before that won gold and bronze medals at the RS”X Youth World Championships in 2017 and 2016, respectively.
Tom’s win takes Israel to five total medals at the Paris Olympics so far, breaking the previous record set in Tokyo (4). This is Israel’s fourth Olympic gold ever, and its second in windsurfing following Gal Friedman in Athens 2004.
Israel’s two windsurfing medals today (Reuveny’s alongside Sharon Kantor’s silver) are its first Olympic windsurfing medals since the Beijing Games in 2008.
File: Israeli windsurfer Tom Reuveny, gold-medal winner at the 2024 Paris Olympics (Facebook screenshot used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
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